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Are There Too Many People?
Past Present Future
The Right Malthusianism
Malthus saw poverty as both natural and inevitable. He used his theory to argue for the gradual abolition of state-supported food aid. The idea that people found so horrifying in this essay when it first appeared is that we should just let people starve.
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